Terry Eagleton’s new book on tragedy can be a difficult read.
Theater
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Review: Exploring sanity, sexuality and motherhood in mid-20th century Hollywood
Religion and spirituality are at the center of Anne Enright’s exceptional new novel.
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‘Dana H.’: She was abducted, but she did not lose her faith.
Dana Higginbotham is the subject of an extraordinary new play by her son, Lucas Hnath.
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The story behind the lost neighborhood where ‘West Side Story’ is set
The setting of “West Side Story” is San Juan Hill, the nickname of the Lincoln Square area of Upper West Side of Manhattan—an area bulldozed and redeveloped into the Lincoln Center performing arts complex in the early 1960s.
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Review: Broadway’s new ‘West Side Story’ is at war with itself
The show’s extreme makeover casts something of a spell but it comes off more and more like a self-serious period piece with some kicking tunes.
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‘The Trojan Women’ speaks to the brutalities of war, in countries that know them all too well
Since 1975, a touring production of “The Trojan Women” staged by New York’s La MaMa Experimental Theater Club has played in more than 30 countries.
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Live from New York, it’s ‘The Gospel of John’
Ken Jennings’s “The Gospel of John” is now onstage at New York City’s Sheen Center through Dec. 29.
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Stephen Adly Guirgis on God, Broadway and writing for women of color
The author of the play “Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven” says prayer may be his most valuable writing hack.
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Here are some of the best ‘A Christmas Carol’ adaptations in New York
Theater critic Jose Solís surveys several productions of the holiday classic
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Broadway’s love affair with the mixtape
The fall season has given us three wildly different case studies in Broadway’s pop/rock hybrids.